Quotes from Miguel de Unamuno

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Consciousness is a disease.

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.